100th FIS Anniversary

2010 will recognise the 100th anniversary of the foundation of the International Ski Commission, the organisation that led to the establishment of FIS. After skiing grew throughout the last decades of the 19th century and National Ski Associations were created in Russia (1896), Bohemia (currently Czech Republic; 1903), Switzerland (1904), the United States, Austria and Germany (all in 1905), and Norway, Sweden and Finland (all in 1908), the need to monitor the global development of skiing increased. On 18th February 1910, 22 delegates from ten nations were welcomed by Karl Roll, President of the Norwegian Ski Association, at Christiania (NOR) for the first International Ski Congress. Their discussions ended with the setting up of the International Ski Commission (CIS). The CIS gave way to FIS during an International Winter Sports Week – known in Olympic history as the 1st Olympic Winter Games – in Chamonix (FRA) in 1924.

Get your copy of the 2009 FIS Bulletin here.